actually the ultimate slacker ants because once they get the slaves they don't even know how to feed themselves a slav maker ant will starve to death with a piece of cake right in front of it unless a slave picks it up and puts itin its mouth does does that sound like lake Lake Tahoe to
- So that's an important thing to say. It wasn't before the Civil War a discussion about abolishing slavery. It's about whether slavery, the institution of slavery should be expanded. - Allowed to expand into federal territories. There, there is a portion of the white population that is adamantly in favor of
were also deeply prejudiced. It's important to keep in mind that attitudes towards slavery and attitudes toward race do not, they're not necessarily the same. I mean, you could be against slavery and still be prejudiced against Black people. By our standards, many abolitionists were prejudiced against Black people. They... But the overwhelming majority of the white North,
and they didn't want that to happen. About 45% of the people who lived in the free states were Democrats. Most Democrats had no problem with slavery. I mean, absolutely no problem with the institution of slavery. There would be more problems among Republicans, especially with extension of slavery, although many Democrats, white Democrats in the North were against that as well.
- The wealthiest part... The 1860 census is our friend, and it tells us that the people who controlled the most wealth in the United States were slaveholders, and their property in slaves alone, not their other holdings, not their land holdings, just property in slaves were valued at about three billion dollars. The valueof all industries, all railroads, all of that put together, fewer than two point five billion dollars. So the people who controlled the most
that announced that all enslaved people belonging to rebels were free. It didn't apply to people who could prove they were unionists living in the South and owned slaves . Lincoln didn't make that distinction in the Emancipation Proclamation.His proclamation is broader than the Second Confiscation Act was.
The state right that they're worried about is the right of their state to interpose its power between a federal government that might try to interfere with slavery and a state government that wants to maintain it. That's the state right that matters then. Northern states also resorted to state rights during this, the ramp-up to the Civil War, with what were called personal liberty laws. They tried to interpose their state power in between a federal government that would
- Quick pause for a bathroom break if it's okay. slavery caused it. Everybody knows that somehow that's the truth, and we're all implicated in it. I mean, he didn't tell them anything that
but, you know, maybe not all Americans, because if you're an American who isn't willing to make a compromise with slavery, then 1776 is not a great moment, because in 1776 pro-slavery and anti-slavery people come together, and they agree to shelve their differences about slavery in order to fight for
Well, if you just think about the history of this country-- slavery, just what individuals have gone through over the years, of all the convictions of Black individuals, men of color over the years have dealt with the prison system and so forth.
declaration. And in the declaration we talked about, we started talking about the issues off recognition, justice and development. And in that declaration, we slave rebellions and during the Civil Rights Act that this idea of activism was like fighting and yelling and screaming and pro testing and writing. And all of that is
of lifelong theory, which is that if you name anything in America, I can. I can relate it back to slavery, that slavery is so foundational to our political systems, to our cultural systems, to how we socialize to our infrastructure to our economy that almost nothing has been left untouched. But it operates invisibly because we have been in such denial about the role of slavery and
is a Virginia. James Madison is a Virginia. Thomas Jefferson is a Virginia. So we do all of these crazy kind of psychological things because we cannot deal with slavery and we're seeing in what's happening in our country right now. The rotten fruit off that denial, which is, um ah, white officers belief that he could kneel on a black man's neck with cameras recording him for eight minutes and 46 seconds. And there will be no
It's a book of 26 chapters. Slavery is being subject to someone's will.
There are people who came over here unwillingly, i.e. slaves . But for the most part, this is not a political book.This is a book to raise awareness that we are a nation of immigrants.
After Haitians won the revolution, white people in the West were like, this is crazy. Slaves are going to revolt everywhere.Haiti is the first black republic to exist in the Western hemisphere.
But the fact of the matter is that our children should have the advantages I never had, both of them, black and white. Slavery is something that was an issue that people used to-- it's a great pub talk to wind people up with.
But the fact of the matter is that our children should have the advantages I never had, both of them, black and white. slavery-- was a few lines, and they had elicited, what, 10,000 slaves .
to support our lifestyles. Slavery is reprehensible. And it actually needs more than our attention and our care and our reposts. It's a thriving business and it's a moral outrage, because it's a system that works.
But no one checked back then, and I was able to interview these very important people and learn something and allow them Slavery is kind of illegal-ish.
There's not a lot of discussion about it's middle. Slavery and the slave trade in the Americas existed longer than emancipation and civil rights for the descendants of slaves has yet existed. If you use one of the shortest periods of slavery, where most of the slave masters were British,
The slavery then, if you use as its ending in what became the United States, slavery existed until 1865. Many of us always when we think about the end of slavery think about the Emancipation Proclamation.
You belong to the only group of people in the Americas whose ancestors came here fully employed. Slavery-- about labor for free. Now, how do you break out of this?
I'll paraphrase canes which says say that people who ignore history uh are slaves to a defunct e Economistum the aim of of History here is not to dismiss the current challenges it's not not to say oh it all worked out in the
on the on the clip I mean that's one of of countless operations we we've done this is real kids are being sold as sex slaves as slave labor it is it's it's to me it's it's the most horrific plague ever to hit the earth and and andespecially in our time and part of what we're trying to do is let people know cuz most people don't know it's it's in
George acted as Martin's father's executor, illuminating Martin's secret inheritance. Slavery is a moral issue and never interested Ethel. If God has not meant for Africans to be enslaved, they wouldn't be in chains.
Slavery in the British West Indies, which ends in 1834, is already, I would say, moribund by the early 1800s.
slavery every year, even now.
Slavery has changed over the years.
slavery begins-- the oldest writings in the world are talking about the cords of our galaxy.
slave castles in uh kumasi and on the cape coast and to go see the last bath of where you know the the slaves were
Slave owners had no interest in the language, culture, or history of their slaves . It was a criminal felony in slave-holding states to teach a slave to read or write. Therefore,
slaves were deemed to have no history worthy of transmitting from generation to generation.
slavery complex, actually they say military coinage, but I'll throw in slavery because the chattel slavery which isn't a major institution either before or after, in Indian and Chinese
Slaves in territory, already captured by the Union, not affected. So, it was only directed at the areas over which Lincoln had no direct authority. So it was certainly a symbolic
slave owning side, he is extremely negative. So he calls one of the most the most hateful
slavery again. And I certainly think slavery's is why it was between the states that was in 1860. But, for Lincoln it was about the general idea that even a political issue can't—doesn't
slavery and Indian Removal Native American removal and I was drawn to him because
slave in the attitude had been overlooked and it was not as hard as I thought it
slave narratives. You know, Frederick Douglas and all the rest. It becomes in the tradition of the autobiography of Malcolm X, which Obama read very, very carefully as a teenager or
slavishly a recipe, but looking in the fridge, seeing what you have, seeing what you have in your freezer, what needs using up, what combinations would be good and then really
slavery I really found that my students had a hard time doing that and the
slavery fall in that category so my students were content to keep it up here keep it
slave narratives who told that uncomfortable difficult truth about
slavery is stopped in the British colonies including morius Guyana and so
Brazil if it hadn't, if the war hadn't taken place. - So slavery was flourishing in the United States from- - Flourishing. - ... from an economics perspective- ... especially.
- Quick pause for a bathroom break if it's okay. with slavery still intact. I mean, in a perverse way, Lee furthers the cause of emancipation because he-- extends the war long enough that the United States says, "We have to do this.
nationhood, right? The nation is more important than the states. We're a single nation. And equality, and anti-slavery. And we say, "Those are the American values, and we committed to them in 1776 in the Declaration of Independence." But, if you do the historical work, it turns out that's really pretty clearly
one that the Continental Congress reviewed, right? Because the draft that Jefferson wrote had a criticism of the international slave trade in there. Congress takes it out, right? They are not writing an anti-slavery document.
slavery, then 1776 is not a great moment, because in 1776 pro-slavery and anti-slavery people come together, and they agree to shelve their differences about slavery in order to fight for independence. Same thing happens with the Constitution in 1787.